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#SciAmBlogs Friday – new cell organelle, beer goggles, octopus pain, beetle battles, B&W moon, new CO2 regulations, DDT kills condors, and more.

- William Skaggs – How Could We Recognize Pain in an Octopus?   - Jag Bhalla – Is Money Like Food?   - Markus Pössel – Applied Purity   - Beatrice Lugger – The Thrill of Pure Thought and Abstraction   - Kathleen Raven – Tannosomes and the trickle-around effect   - Scicurious – IgNobels [...]

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- William Skaggs - How Could We Recognize Pain in an Octopus?

 

- Jag Bhalla - Is Money Like Food?


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- Markus Pössel - Applied Purity

 

- Beatrice Lugger - The Thrill of Pure Thought and Abstraction

 

- Kathleen Raven - Tannosomes and the trickle-around effect

 

- Scicurious - IgNobels 2013! Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder.

 

- Becky Crew - Beetle Battles: The Secret World of Leg Wrestling and Abdomen Squeezing

 

- Caleb A. Scharf - The Moon Is Not Black And White, It Just Looks That Way

 

- John R. Platt - Banned Pesticide DDT Is Still Killing California Condors

 

- David Wogan - Running the numbers on EPA’s new CO2 regulations: combined cycle stacks up wellandDon’t just blame the EPA – coal exports are down, too

 

- Melissa C. Lott - Photo Friday: Energy on the horizon, A foggy German morning

 

- Felicity Muth - The world at night – blacklighting: how it works and some amazing photos

 

- Katie McKissick - Piled High and Deeper

 

- Khalil A. Cassimally - Khalil’s Picks (20 September 2013)

 

- John Horgan - Did Antidepressant Play a Role in Navy Yard Massacre?

 

- David Biello - The Answer to Coal Climate Pollution Is Natural Gas and Carbon Capture, EPA Says

 

- Dina Fine Maron - EPA Challenges Coal Industry to Adopt New Technology

 

- Barbara Kiser - Book Reviews: Smart Implants, Ultralight Aerogels and Other Innovations

 

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